[cups] printing from CUPS 2.0.3 with LPD to a Windows 8.1 box USB printer

[Helge Blischke]

> Am 04.03.2016 um 21:58 schrieb Rick Cochran <rcc2 at cornell.edu>:
> 
> On 3/4/16 10:14 AM, Helge Blischke wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 04.03.2016 um 14:53 schrieb Rick Cochran <rcc2 at cornell.edu>:
>>> 
>>> I wonder if perhaps this is a "Version 4" driver issue.
>>> 
>>> Starting with Server 2012, Microsoft created a new print driver environment called "version 4" or "Class" drivers. They have a lot of very good features (google it), but they accept only "xps" format print jobs. Thus you cannot print to a Server 2012 machine which uses Version 4 drivers from either an OS X or a Linux machine.
>>> 
>>> I believe Microsoft changed their driver system for Windows 8 at about the same time, and of course Windows 10 would have carried that forward.
>>> 
>>> Just a guess. Could be wrong.
>>> 
>>> -Rick
>> 
>> There is a CUPS filter, gstoxps (https://sourceforge.net/projects/cupsaddons/files/gstoxps <https://sourceforge.net/projects/cupsaddons/files/gstoxps>).
>> It seems to need a Ghostscript version >= 9.10.
>> 
>> Helge
> 
> Thanks! Good to know.
> 
> There seems to be nothing for OS X however.
> 
> -Rick
> 

Well, of course that filter works on OS X (even on 10.11.3). The only thing is, you either need to 
compile Ghostscript from the sources, or install a package that contains it – e.g. MacTeX 2015 or higher,
which contains gs 9.16 in a configuration perfectly suitable for use with CUPS.

Helge